I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
SALMAN RUSHDIEPerhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
More Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
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I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.
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A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It’s also for people who you think of as reprehensible.
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Faith without doubt is addiction.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
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For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder, a snake.
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How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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I didn’t become a writer to write about me.
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